December 2001

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Features

Vessels of Death or Life

Angiogenesis¿the formation of new blood vessels¿might one day be manipulated to treat disorders
from cancer to heart disease. First-generation drugs are now in the final phase of human testing

By Rakesh K. Jain and Peter Carmeliet

The Sciences

India, Pakistan and the Bomb

The Indian subcontinent is the most likely place in the world for a nuclear war

By M. V. Ramana and A. H. Nayyar

Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light

Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons

By Eli Yablonovitch

How We Came to Be Human

The acquisition of language and the capacity for symbolic art may lie at the very heart of the extraordinary cognitive abilities that set us apart from the rest of creation

By Ian Tattersall

The First Stars in the Universe

Exceptionally massive and bright, the earliest stars changed the course of cosmic history

By Richard B. Larson ، Volker Bromm

The Origins of Personal Computing

FORGET GATES, JOBS AND WOZNIAK. THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN INTERACTIVE COMPUTERS WERE LAID DECADES EARLIER

By M. Mitchell Waldrop

Departments

Stem Cell Showstopper?

From the Editor

Here's Looking at You

Letters

Letters

Erratum

Advances

Trillions Entwined

Evaluating the Threat

Reseizing the Controls

Special Report: Better Killing through Chemistry

Cure or Poison?

Plague Redux

Inside Attacks

Defusing Anthrax

Recommended

Spontaneous, Unedited, Naked

Skeptic

More Baloney Detection

Anti Gravity

The Importance of Being Ernst

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

In Brief

The Nobel Prizes for 2001

Brief Bits, December 2001

Puzzling Adventures

Fashion Gang

Profile

Thawing Scott's Legacy

Staking Claims

Patent Pamphleteer

Innovations

The Undying Pulse

By the Numbers

Why Do Prisons Grow?

Technicalities

Long-Distance Robots

Working Knowledge

In the Fast Lane--Working Knowledge on Electronic Toll Collection

Departments

Annual Index 2001

End Points

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